From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 24 01:36:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22297 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 01:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA22292 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 01:36:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id KAA25525; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:36:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:36:16 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer), kjc@csl.sony.co.jp, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth throttling etc. References: <199804240548.HAA20491@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 24 Apr 1998 10:36:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of "Fri, 24 Apr 1998 07:48:54 +0200 (MET DST)" Message-ID: Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo writes: > right. as a matter of fact, the ipfw "rules" are really a program > so i wonder if it wouldn't be better to define a simple language > (bytecode ?) such that /sbin/ipfw compiles a "program" into bytecode > that is passed to the kernel ... Just a thought: BPF... -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message